Charity Quotes · Page 27

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves…

— Henry David Thoreau

I previously worked as the director of VisionSpring, a non-profit dedicated to distributing glasses to people in need.

— Neil Blumenthal

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

— Muhammad Yunus

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

— Walter E. Williams

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

— Aberjhani

“Good men's actions are natural While a scoundrel's charity Is carefully planned to please.”

— Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

— Chelsea Handler

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable…

— Michael Josephson

“I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was cold and you clothed me; come, possess the kingdom prepared for…

— St. Francis de Sales

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of…

— Clarence Darrow

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

— Paul J. Zak

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems…

— Daniel Abraham

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but…

— John Ruskin

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Charity is the secret weapon Jesus Christ places in our hands, the only thing that can assure us of victory. The first…

— Marcial MacIel

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational;…

— Paul Bloom

I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each…

— Claudia Gray

Conservatives believe in traditional values. Not because we want to impose our views on anyone, but because to abandon those values would…

— Marco Rubio

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to…

— Leonard Pitts

I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, ..…

— Chuck Grassley

Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!…

— Elizabeth Keckley

Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Only he with the hobbled foot knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can appreciate what the sweetest…

— Gregory Maguire

There is precious little that's charitable about the world of charity.

— Richard Cohen

I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

— Vendela Kirsebom

I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take…

— Mark Indelicato

The 'Apprentice' was tough, tough work. It was all for charity, so I was thankful for the money Donald Trump gave me…

— Tito Ortiz

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

— Seneca the Younger

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

— Pope Francis

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

— George Eliot

“We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.”

— Bill Maher

I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one…

— Alexander Pope

I have learned to give, not because I have too much, but because I have known the feeling of not having anything.

— Anonymous

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

— Benjamin Franklin

Homer, I'd love to chitty-chat, but tonight's the night I do my charity work.

— Ned Flanders

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

— Pope Francis

“Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

— P. D. James

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

— Flannery O'Connor